Terraceous

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling earth (soil, dirt). archaic

    "The progress that we made through the terraceous compost was necessarily slow, and every step forward was made with the greatest difficulty, nothing but persevering labour carrying our boat gradually through it."

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earthenearthenearthyearthy

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"The progress that we made through the terraceous compost was necessarily slow, and every step forward was made with the greatest difficulty, nothing but persevering labour carrying our boat gradually through it."

Etymology

From Latin terra (“earth”) + -aceous.

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